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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Honor

Deep Tech

Smartphones

With its striking design and powerful AI capabilities, the Magic V3 sets the stage for Honor’s dominance in the foldable phone market.

Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe | KrASIA

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Honor’s foldable Magic V3 steals spotlight at IFA 2024, overtakes Samsung in west Europe

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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36Kr English

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Japan, Korea, and the West

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

Creative

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Apple and Tencent square off again—this time over China’s booming minigames market.

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues | KrASIA

WeChat stays on iPhones as Tencent and Apple spar over minigame revenues

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Retail

New COO Zheng Shuohuai takes on the challenge of aligning Sam’s Club’s e-commerce and offline operations as Walmart China sharpens its omnichannel strategy.

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle | KrASIA

Sam’s Club names new COO in Walmart China’s latest executive reshuffle

KrASIA | IPO Archives

Venture Capital

Kuaishou's IPO valuation to surpass USD 50 billion

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

The listing was delayed due to the large number of orders placed in the secondary market, a source told 36Kr.

KEY STAT | Loss-making short video app Kuaishou to list in early Februrary | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Loss-making short video app Kuaishou to list in early Februrary

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Julianna Wu

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

Traveloka

It's a different version of a direct listing, but with more potential, says MDI Ventures' Hartanto.

Indonesian unicorn Traveloka mulls SPAC merger to go public, following Tokopedia | KrASIA

Indonesian unicorn Traveloka mulls SPAC merger to go public, following Tokopedia

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Ursula Florene

Number of IPOs on Shanghai Stock Exchange, 2020: 228

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

China registered 395 new listings raising a total of USD 72 billion in Shanghai and Shenzhen combined, the largest amount since 2010.

KEY STAT | Shanghai takes the crown as world number one exchange for IPOs in 2020 | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Shanghai takes the crown as world number one exchange for IPOs in 2020

An Innoviz Technologies vehicle. Courtesy of Innoviz via NoCamels.

MENA

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Innoviz is a leading provider of lidar sensing solutions for the mass commercialization of autonomous vehicles.

Israeli lidar sensor firm Innoviz to go public at USD 1.4 billion valuation | KrASIA

Israeli lidar sensor firm Innoviz to go public at USD 1.4 billion valuation

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NoCamels

Chinese share in global stock offering, 2020: 37%

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

The USD 129 billion raised in 2020 mark a historical high for Chinese companies.

KEY STAT | Chinese companies raised record-breaking amount of money in global IPOs | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Chinese companies raised record-breaking amount of money in global IPOs

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Health Tech

Visual Stories

The healthcare unit of JD.com became the youngest unicorn on the Hurun Global Unicorns Index 2020.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | JD unit breaks out in Asia's biggest health IPO | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | JD unit breaks out in Asia&#8217;s biggest health IPO

Luckin Coffee

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

Investment

The tensions between the two countries and the Luckin Coffee accounting scandal pushed the US regulator to move forward and impose new rules.

US approves delisting bill targeting Chinese companies | KrASIA

US approves delisting bill targeting Chinese companies

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

Pop Mark Hong Kong IPO to raise USD 600 million

Online channels contributed 32% to the company's 2019 revenue.

KEY STAT | Toy maker Pop Mart sees huge demand for USD 600 million Hong Kong IPO | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Toy maker Pop Mart sees huge demand for USD 600 million Hong Kong IPO

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Social Impact

Shenzhen's new policy explained, with a graphical history of the international tech hub.

IPO